The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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In wine there is health.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Home is where the heart is.
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